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Property As A Fundamental Civil Right, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1992

Property As A Fundamental Civil Right, Richard A. Epstein

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Intellectual Voyeurism In Legal Scholarship, Brian Leiter Jan 1992

Intellectual Voyeurism In Legal Scholarship, Brian Leiter

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Enumeration Of All Simple T-(T+7,T+1,2) Designs, Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 1992

Enumeration Of All Simple T-(T+7,T+1,2) Designs, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We enumerate by computer algorithms all simple t (t +7, t +1, 2) designs for 1 <= t <= 5, i.e. for all possible t , and this enumeration is new for t >= 3. The number of nonisomorphic designs is equal to 3, 13, 27, 1 and 1 for t = 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. We also present some properties of these designs including orders of their full automorphism groups and resolvability.


On Analogical Reasoning Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 1992

On Analogical Reasoning Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein

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The True Wisdom Of The Bill Of Rights, Philip B. Kurland Jan 1992

The True Wisdom Of The Bill Of Rights, Philip B. Kurland

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Gao Report Confirms Failure Of U.S. Guidelines, Michael Tonry Jan 1992

Gao Report Confirms Failure Of U.S. Guidelines, Michael Tonry

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Gao Report Confirms Failure Of U.S. Sentencing Commissions Guidelines, Michael Tonry Jan 1992

Gao Report Confirms Failure Of U.S. Sentencing Commissions Guidelines, Michael Tonry

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Asymptotic Performance Of A Distributed Detection System In Correlated Gaussian Noise, V. Aalo, R. Viswanathan Jan 1992

Asymptotic Performance Of A Distributed Detection System In Correlated Gaussian Noise, V. Aalo, R. Viswanathan

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In this correspondence we consider the detection of a constant signal in noise with a large set of geographically dispersed sensors. The noise at the sensors are correlated Gaussian. Two correlation models are considered: one where the correlation coefficient between any two sensors decreases geometrically as the sensor separation increases, and the other where the correlation coefficient between any two sensors is a constant. For both correlation models, the asymptotic (as the number of sensors becomes large) performances of a distributed detection system and a central system are examined.


Standards Of Persuasion And The Distinction Between Fact And Law, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1992

Standards Of Persuasion And The Distinction Between Fact And Law, Richard D. Friedman

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The invitation to respond in these pages to Gary Lawson's very interesting article, Proving the Law, was tempting enough. But what made it irresistible was Professor Lawson's comment that he is "addressing, with a brevity that borders on the irresponsible, subjects well beyond [his] depth." Now, that's the kind of debate I really like. Let me jump right in. A principal question raised by Lawson, which I find quite interesting, may be phrased in general, and purposefully ambiguous, terms as follows: Before an actor treats a proposition as a valid2 proposition of law, what standard of persuasion should that proposition …


A New Upper Bound For The Ramsey Number R(5,5), Brendan Mckay, Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 1992

A New Upper Bound For The Ramsey Number R(5,5), Brendan Mckay, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We show that, in any colouring of the edges of K_53 with two colours, there exists a monochromatic K_5, and hence R(5,5) <= 53. This is accomplished in three stages: a full enumeration of edges in (4,5)-good graphs, and a proof of the nonexistence of (5,5)-good graphs on 53 vertices. Only the first stage required extensive help from the computer.


Infinite Strands, Infinitesimally Thin: Storytelling, Bayesianism, Hearsay And Other Evidence, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1992

Infinite Strands, Infinitesimally Thin: Storytelling, Bayesianism, Hearsay And Other Evidence, Richard D. Friedman

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David Schum has long been one of our keenest commentators on questions of inference and proof. He has been particularly interested in, and illuminating on, the subject of "cascaded," or multi-step, inference.' This is a subject of importance to lawyers, because most evidence at trial can be analyzed in terms of cascaded inference. Usually, the proposition that the fact finder2 might immediately infer from the evidence is not itself an element of a crime, claim, or defense. Most often, an extra inference would be required to jump from that proposition to a proposition that the law deems material. Thus, inference …


A Superfund Trivia Test: A Comment On The Complexity Of Environmental Laws, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Jan 1992

A Superfund Trivia Test: A Comment On The Complexity Of Environmental Laws, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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Professor Rodgers examines the reasons for the American obsession with trivia. While unable to determine the cause of the obsession, he does provide some insight on the usefulness and need for the information in the study of environmental law.


Law And Society In A New South Community: Durham County, North Carolina, 1898-1899, James L. Hunt Oct 1991

Law And Society In A New South Community: Durham County, North Carolina, 1898-1899, James L. Hunt

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Modeling Ultrasound Speckle Formation And Its Dependence On Imaging System’S Impulse Response, Navalgund A. H. K. Rao, Hui Zhu Jul 1991

Modeling Ultrasound Speckle Formation And Its Dependence On Imaging System’S Impulse Response, Navalgund A. H. K. Rao, Hui Zhu

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Ultrasonic echoes, backscattered from an inhomogeneous medium have the character of a random signal, which is mainly responsible for the observed speckle in medical images. Such a medium can be modeled as a uniform matrix with scattering bodies distributed randomly. When the number of density of scatterers is high, the individual scatterers are not resolved by the imaging process, and a speckle pattern is produced as a result of interference of waves from many scatterers within the resolution cell volume. This cell volume depends on the beam profile and the pulse width of the interrogating pulse. We have used a …


Degnerate Four-Wave Mixing In Rhodamine Doped Epoxy Waveguides, B. Rossi, Hugh Byrne, W. Blau Apr 1991

Degnerate Four-Wave Mixing In Rhodamine Doped Epoxy Waveguides, B. Rossi, Hugh Byrne, W. Blau

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Self-diffraction from laser-induced gratings is observed in a 13 pm-thick film of rhodamine I3 doped epoxy. The decay of the grating is measured to be 2.05 ns. Degenerate forward four-wave mixing in a guided geometry is observed by coupling out all beams after nronagation over 1 mm. At 595 nm the third-order nonlinear susceptibility of the film is measured to be 1.5~10-‘~ m2Ve2.


Refocusing The New Evidence Scholarship : A Comment On Robert S. Thompson's "Decision, Disciplined Inferences And The Adversary Process", Terence J. Anderson Jan 1991

Refocusing The New Evidence Scholarship : A Comment On Robert S. Thompson's "Decision, Disciplined Inferences And The Adversary Process", Terence J. Anderson

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An Economic Analysis Of Mortgagor Protection Laws, Michael H. Schill Jan 1991

An Economic Analysis Of Mortgagor Protection Laws, Michael H. Schill

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Regulation--And Contract--In Environmental Law, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1991

Regulation--And Contract--In Environmental Law, Richard A. Epstein

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Public Prosecution And Hydro-Engineering, Michael Tonry Jan 1991

Public Prosecution And Hydro-Engineering, Michael Tonry

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There are inherent tensions between conceptions of public prosecutors as elected officials who respond to public intolerance of crime and criminals and as officers of the court who answer to normative injunctions of fairness and dispassion. Discussion of prosecutors' roles has progressed little beyond recognition of inherent tensions. There is no literature on prosecutorial strategies. The empirical literature on prosecutorial operations is scant.


Legal Education: An Illusion, Judith T. Younger Jan 1991

Legal Education: An Illusion, Judith T. Younger

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Shadow Casting Phenomena At Newgrange, Frank Prendergast Jan 1991

Shadow Casting Phenomena At Newgrange, Frank Prendergast

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A digital model of the Newgrange passage tomb and surrounding ring of monoliths known as the Great Circle is used to investigate sunrise shadow casting phenomena at the monument. Diurnal variation in shadow directions and lengths are analysed for their potential use in the Bronze Age to indicate the passage of seasonal time. Computer-aided simulations are developed from a photogrammetric survey to accurately show how three of the largest monoliths, located closest to the tomb entrance and archaeologically coded GC1, GC-1 and GC-2, cast their shadows onto the vertical face of the entrance kerbstone, coded K1. The phenomena occur at …


On Separable Torsion- Free Modules Of Countable Density Character, R. Gobel, Brendan Goldsmith Jan 1991

On Separable Torsion- Free Modules Of Countable Density Character, R. Gobel, Brendan Goldsmith

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The endomorphism algebras of modules of large cardinalities have been extensively studied in recent years using the combinatorial set-theoretic techniques of Shelah-the so-called black-box methods (see, e.g., [4, 5, 151). Despite the spectacular success of these methods, they are not suitable for realization theorems at small carinalities. Of course at the level of countability (or rather more generally for cardinals ~2’~) there are in some cases the original dramatic results of A. L. S. Corner [ 1, 2, 31 and the more recent generalizations of Gobel and May [ 111. Very recently the study of realization problems at cardinalities


Getting To No: A Study Of Settlement Negotiations And The Selection Of Cases For Trial, Samuel R. Gross, Kent D. Syverud Jan 1991

Getting To No: A Study Of Settlement Negotiations And The Selection Of Cases For Trial, Samuel R. Gross, Kent D. Syverud

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A trial is a failure. Although we celebrate it as the centerpiece of our system of justice, we know that trial is not only an uncommon method of resolving disputes, but a disfavored one. With some notable exceptions, lawyers, judges, and commentators agree that pretrial settlement is almost always cheaper, faster, and better than trial. Much of our civil procedure is justified by the desire to promote settlement and avoid trial. More important, the nature of our civil process drives parties to settle so as to avoid the costs, delays, and uncertainties of trial, and, in many cases, to agree …


Who Should Live-Or Die? Who Should Decide?, Yale Kamisar Jan 1991

Who Should Live-Or Die? Who Should Decide?, Yale Kamisar

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TRIAL asked Professor Kamisar questions on legal and ethical issues surrounding the right to die, a subject attracting increasing interest across the country and around the world.


Feminism Historicized: Medieval Misogynist Stereotypes In Contemporary Feminist Jurisprudence, Jeanne L. Schroeder Jul 1990

Feminism Historicized: Medieval Misogynist Stereotypes In Contemporary Feminist Jurisprudence, Jeanne L. Schroeder

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The article argues that contemporary feminist theories are ahistorical and culturally narrow, often mirroring medieval misogynist stereotypes by assuming that late-twentieth-century, white, upper-middle-class American experiences represent universal truths about gender. By examining medieval canon law and societal norms, the analysis reveals that patriarchal structures have persisted across time, adapting to different cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity. The author advocates for a more historically and cross-culturally informed approach to jurisprudence and gender theory to avoid replicating past oppressions.


Constructing 6-(14,7,4) Designs, Donald Kreher, Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 1990

Constructing 6-(14,7,4) Designs, Donald Kreher, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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A summary of the algebraic and computational techniques used in the construction of two non-isomorphic simple 6-( 14,7,4) designs and four non-isomorphic simple 5-( 13,6,4) designs is presented. With the exception of the 6-(33,8,36) designs discovered by Magliveras and Leavitt, and the 6(20,9,112) designs discovered by Kramer, Leavitt and Magliveras, this is the only other small parameter situation in which a simple 6-design is known to exist.


What's So Special About Judges?, Frank H. Easterbrook Jan 1990

What's So Special About Judges?, Frank H. Easterbrook

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What Has Pragmatism To Offer Law?, Richard A. Posner Jan 1990

What Has Pragmatism To Offer Law?, Richard A. Posner

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Duncan Kennedy On Affirmative Action, Richard A. Posner Jan 1990

Duncan Kennedy On Affirmative Action, Richard A. Posner

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The Ramsey Numbers R(K_3, K_8 - E) And R(K_3, K_9 - E), Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 1990

The Ramsey Numbers R(K_3, K_8 - E) And R(K_3, K_9 - E), Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We give a general construction of a triangle free graph on 4p points whose complement does not contain K_p+2 - e for p >= 4. This implies the the Ramsey number R(K_3, K_k - e) >= 4k - 7 for k >= 6. We also present a cyclic triangle free graph on 30 points whose complement does not contain K_9 - e. The first construction gives lower bounds equal to the exact values of the corresponding Ramsey number for k = 6, 7 and 8. the upper bounds are obtained by using computer algorithms. In particular, we obtain two new …